No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Leon Wieseltier

About Leon Wieseltier

Portrait of Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier (; born June 14, 1952) is an American critic and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He was a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic until 2017, when the magazine fired him following allegations and an admission by...